Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.

Whoever turns away from us might not offend us in doing so perhaps, but he certainly offends our followers.